ChapterTwenty Eight
Back in my dorm room, Mary Lynn and Diane were trying to calmme, to bring me back down to earth. I wascompletelyunhingedand unable to stop my crying.I was crying hysterically with tears of joy, unable to speak coherently.As they were both trying to comfort me, I was trying to collect myself. I triedto speak, but all I could do was babble incoherently.
Mary Lynn offered the following synopsis of the evening, saying, “Well, Laura, yesterday, you seemed to have lost a boyfriend, and tonight, you seemed to have gained a boyfriend. Two years later, and Tony’s still crazy about you. Why were you so quiet this evening?”
“I couldn’t believe he was there, I was stunned, and nervous; I didn’t know how I wassupposed to behave,”I replied, sobbing hysterically.
“The way he looke
